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vessel
Object Type
vessel
Museum number
1879,1209.1419
Description
Pottery Food-vessel; incised short diagonal lines on internal rim bevel; vertical impressions on external rim bevel; scored discontinuous horizontal lines on neck; row of jabbed impressions on shoulder; on body, zone of scored herringbone bordered above by two and separated by three scored discontinuous horizontal lines from zone of diagonal lines, separated by three similar lines from zone of scored herringbone bordered beneath by row of jabbed impressions above scored horizontal lines. Light brown fabric.
Cultures/periods
Bronze Age
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Ford (Northumberland)
(?)
Materials
pottery
Technique
incised
impressed
Dimensions
Diameter:
98 millimetres
(base;approx)
Diameter:
151 millimetres
(mouth)
Height:
143 millimetres
Curator's comments
Gibson 1978 No details.
Bibliographic references
Kinnes et al 1985 / The Greenwell Collection
(UN 17:1)
Gibson 1978 / Bronze Age Pottery in the North-East of England
(p. 63, no. 73)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Rev William Greenwell
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1879,1209.1419